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A small votive monument published in 2001 by P. Chrysostomou in the Bulletin of the Bénaki Museum has a dedication to the godess En(n)odia, which is designated as Κορουταρρα. The texte is probably from Thessaly: this is actually the region where the cult of En(n)dia is attested most. We suggest an interpretation of the epithet as a femenine agent noun (with the suffix -ταρρα, which is already attested in Thessaly) of the lexeme underlying κόρος “sasiety” (*“nourishment”, “growth”: órh1-o-), cf. Att. korevnnumi “satiate”: the epithet Κορουταρρα goes thus back to * korō-t(e)r a- “who makes grow”, more precisely “who provides with nourishment/growth”, corresponding to *κορω- of the type στεϕανω- “crown” (i.e. *“provide with a crown”).This interpretation leads to the characterisation of Ennodia as a Thessalian kourotrophic divinity, as thi is the case, in the same region, for Artemis, Brimô, Hekate Leukathea, Pasikrata, as well as for Apollo, especially in the sanctuary consecrated to him in Pagasae, which is now known thanks to recent excavations by archaelogists of the University of Thessaly.